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cudbrightshire. Hpilobiwm obsewrum (Schrib.), Filago germanica, 
Centaurea nigra var. radians are all additional. 
Of Mieracia, H. corymbosum and H. tridentatwm are observed 
in plenty in the Kenmure district by Mr M‘Andrew; and a 
form supposed by Prof. Babington to be H. vulgatum was 
collected by Messrs M‘Andrew and Coles on lofty rocks in the 
Carsphairn hills in July of this year. Many other species in this 
difficult genus should be found in Dumfriesshire. 
A curiously dwarf and broad-leaved Centaury, noticed by 
Messrs Robert Watson and Coles on the Borness shore, proves 
to be the var. B. capitata of E. centawrium ; it is deceptively like 
the Z#. latifolia. 
Linaria minor, near Lochmaben Station (F. W. Grierson) ; 
Veronica montana, L., in great abundance in St. Mary’s Isle 
(R. Watson) ; forms of Mentha officinalis (under M. piperita) ; 
and what may prove a transitional form between I. hirsuta and 
M. pubescens were noted this season by Mr Coles, who had also 
Rumex conglomeratus, and the following Pondweeds to report 
from his own district :—P. mucronatus, Schrad., in Carlingwark 
Loch ; P. Zizi, M. et K., in the Tarff, where also P. Jucens var. 
acuminatus and P. prelongus luxuriate; P. pusillus var. tenwis- 
sima, in great quantities in a mill dam in Kelton. With 
P. pectinatus and P. lucens, collected by Gray many years ago, 
our total of Pondweeds reaches to 15. 
A notable discovery by Mr Coles was made in regard to Allium 
carinatum, L., which much-discussed species he found in August 
this year growing vigorously, and with every appearance of its 
being native, on the shrub-entangled shingle of what is known 
as the shore of “the Lake” below Kirkcudbright. After care- 
ful scrutiny, in conjunction with Mr Robert Watson, Rector of 
the Kirkcudbright Academy, of the locality, and a detailed cor- 
respondence with Mr Ar, Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon, weight of 
opinion seemed to lie on the side of the Alliwm being very 
probably indigenous in this place (and equally so in the vicinity 
of Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, where Mr Watson had known the 
plant to exist for three years.) This was found to have been 
planted by Dr Grierson. 
Juncus obtusiflorus, Ehrh., of which the only record was so far 
back as 1837-44, is found by M‘Andrew in a new habitat in 
Colvend, who also confirms the station for Carex aquatilis var. 
Watson, Syme. 
